David Young (novelist)

Stasi Child was chosen as The Times Crime Book of the Month in February 2016 and reviewed by Marcel Berlins who said the novel was 'particularly successful' in 'portraying the mood of East Germans at the time - fear yet pride'.[9] In the same month, it was also a Pick of the Week in The Daily Telegraph,[10] and reviewed in the Sunday Express.[11] In March 2016 it was chosen as WHSmith Fiction Book of the Month. The book's highest chart position was number 17 in The Bookseller UK mass market fiction chart.[12] Stasi Wolf followed in February 2017, again a Daily Telegraph Pick of the Week,[13] then A Darker State in 2018. The novels are being developed for television by Euston Films.[14] The series has been sold in eleven territories around the world.[15]

Stasi Child won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger[16] and was longlisted for the 2016 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[17] A draft of the novel won the City University London 2014 crime fiction prize, sponsored by the Peters, Fraser & Dunlop literary agency who now represent Young.[18] The opening 15,000 words of Stasi Child won third prize in the novel section of the 2014 Yeovil Literary Prize.[19] Stasi Wolf was longlisted for the 2017 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[20]